Jeremy Kyle was slammed by Judge Robert Linford for making money from ‘people such as you’

She had claimed her dad was not her biological parent but a DNA test ordered by social services proved her wrong.

The former couple lived together in Cornwall and Katie was 20 when she began bedding Philip, who was aged 52.

They have avoided jail after pleading guilty to having a sexual relationship with an adult relative between August 2012 and August 2013.

Truro Crown Court heard how the pair continued to sleep together even though they had been warned it was against the law.

Sentencing, Judge Robert Linford slammed The Jeremy Kyle Show saying: “You were both involved in an unlawful sexual relationship. Both knew that it was wrong in my assessment but none the less you did it.

“Quite why it would be that the makers of a TV programme think there is money to be made from people such as you is entirely beyond me.

“You, Mr Buscombe, are described as socially isolated and with your own problems, and you, Katie Buscombe, have medical and mental problems which are not your fault, but each of you should have known that what you did was not right.”

The court heard how Katie’s parents had split when she was young but she made contact with her dad Richard when she turned 18.

She moved in with him and Philip in Cornwall but her dad moved out because he was “not happy with the situation between the two of them”.

Prosecutor Heather Hope said: “It would seems there was concern in the family at the behaviour of the two of them and at the sleeping arrangements. It was thought they were sleeping together.”